If you’re interested in my writing, you might be interested to know that I’m re-posting my ficlets over on my blog. I’m doing this so that they exist somewhere - Ficlets.com is unfortunately closing down in a couple of weeks. I’m trying to post one a day, but I’m adding a post-script commentary, talking about where the ficlet came from (or where it might have come from), and also a retrospective look at the ficlet (which is usually me commenting on what I’d change).

The first two ficlets, An Undesirable Happenstance and Death Of A Boring Call Centre Employee, are up now. I’d very much appreciate your feedback.

Nope, no new page today I’m afraid. Instead you get the first of a two-part mini-webseries written by myself and Michelle Osorio of Kill9 Studios. If you’ve played Left 4 Dead, or if you’re a fan of zombie movies, you should get a real kick out of it.

I’ve disabled comments on this post as I’d like to encourage you to leave a comment and, if you liked it, a positive rating over on the YouTube page for this video. If you liked the video please Digg it using this link, instead of the “Appease our Robot Overlords” links below.

The second part will be going up in about a week and a half.

The comic is on a break for two weeks so that JjAR can enjoy Russia’s Christmas with his family. There’s no update today but I’ll arrange for something on Friday. It probably won’t be a Guest Strip, but likely something more akin to the Lovett’s Manifest pages we posted between issues 1 and 2.

Additionally, the wiki has been overrun by spam, and we (the writers) are the only people using it anyway, so I’m moving it to a Top Secret New Location. Sorry.

It’s almost 25 of DEC (Actually it is already for me)….And without looking at  the fact that in my country celebrate Christmas on 7th of January  (Thank you Jesus oh mighty for that that you were born once again specially for us), and we don’t have Santa n stuff………Anyway MERRY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!!! And see ya in the new year.

JjAR has sent me Page 7, but unfortunately as I’m packing to fly back to Los Angeles tonight I don’t have the time to letter and post the page now. I’ll make time to do it once I get home tomorrow night. Then JjAR is taking a break for two weeks while he catches up on some other paid work.

Sorry for the eratic update schedule as of late. Long-time readers may remember we had similar delays last December, although we had the foresight last year to warn you! Here’s to a smooth 2009…

Between my current holiday in England and JjAR starting his new job, the comic isn’t updating quite as punctually as we usually like it to. Sorry about that. The next page will go up as soon as we get it done.

It astounds me how I’ve managed to get this far through life without playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. The closest I ever came as a kid was Heroquest, a superb little board game produced out of a partnership between MB and Games Workshop. The present situation of my social circle in Los Angeles - namely, that I haven’t really got one (it’s more of a Very Small Social Line at the moment, possibly a Social Triangle) - means I’m unlikely to get to tackle the game at home. It’s also not the sort of thing I reckon I could just jump into at, say, the PAX West Coast Train Trip. I was tempted to ask to join in on this year’s train journey but I don’t really know enough about the game to avoid wasting people’s time. Methinks it may do me some good to listen to the Penny Arcade/PvP D&D4 podcasts.

In September I picked up Deep7’s Red Dwarf: The Roleplaying Game. It’s a lot simpler than I imagine D&D to be. I’ve read the rulebook backwards and forwards and I reckon I know enough to get a game going, with me in the unfortunate position of AI (the Red Dwarf RPG equivilent of a Dungeon Master). It’s just a case now of getting some friends together and rolling with it.

Er, that pun was unintentional. Honest.

(Oh ho ho, I made a pun!)

The design has been retired. We hope to have some brand-new tee designs ready come January. In the meantime if you were hoping to get a tee in time for Christmas I’m afraid you’ve probably missed the mark as they can take a couple of weeks to get produced and sent out. Lament!

It also looks like I’m going to miss the projected Dec 15th release of Tales From The Flurry, due to a combination of confusion about how the distributor’s website actually works. Entirely my fault, and I apologise. I aim now to have the book out in early January. Sorry.

Jump Leads is now listed on fairly new-ish webcomic rating system IsItFunnyToday?. In particular, we’re listed under Story Comics, where at current check the latest page is rated 14th. Fairly respectable, I think.

Update at 10:36pm PST: Blimey! Jump Leads has climbed to 6th place. Granted, we’ve done that with only 10 “Yes” votes (and 7 “No” votes), but even still I think that’s Pretty Bloody Spectacular.

Ok….No page for today….but here’s some bonus. WALKING LLEW!!!